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ACTS.--"After these things Paul departed from Athens, and came to Corinth . . . . . Then
all the Greeks took Sosthenes, the chief ruler of the synagogue, and beat him
before the judgment seat" (Acts 18: 1, 17).
EPISTLE.--"Now this I say, that every one of you saith, I am of Paul; and I of Apollos"
(I Cor. 1: 12).
"Who then is Paul, and who is Apollos, but ministers by whom ye believed
. . . . . I have planted, Apollos watered; but God gave the increase" (I Cor. 3: 5,
6).
ACTS.--"A certain Jew named Apollos, born at Alexandria, an eloquent man, and
mighty in the Scriptures, came to Ephesus . . . . . And when he was disposed to
pass into Achaia (Corinth was the capital. See also I Cor. 16: 15), the brethren
wrote, exhorting the disciples to receive him: who, when he was come, helped
them much which had believed through grace" (Acts 18: 24, 27).
EPISTLE.--"I thank God that I baptized none of you, but Crispus and Gaius"
(I Cor. 1: 14).
ACTS.--"And Crispus, the chief ruler of the synagogue, believed on the Lord with all his
house; and many of the Corinthians hearing, believed, and were baptized"
(Acts 18: 8).
The reader will find many other allusions to the Acts, but the above are enough for our
present purpose. The epistles of Paul are surely a part of his acts. Why rule them out?
If, then, as we have shown, I Corinthians reveals many links with the Acts, it will be
superfluous to "prove" anything regarding II Corinthians. Both epistles go together.
Accordingly we pass on:
Galatians and the Acts.
EPISTLE.--"Ye have heard of my conversation in time past in the Jews' religion, how
that beyond measure I persecuted the church of God and wasted it" (The R.V.
translates it "made havoc") (Gal. 1: 13).
ACTS.--"As for Saul he made havoc" (R.V. translates "laid waste") "of the church"
(Acts 8: 3).
EPISTLE.--"I profited in the Jews' religion above many my equals in mine own nation,
being more exceeding zealous of the traditions of my fathers" (Gal. 1: 14).
ACTS.--"I am verily a man which am a Jew, born in Tarsus, a city of Cilicia, yet
brought up in this city at the feet of Gamaliel, and taught according to the
perfect manner of the law of the fathers; and was zealous toward God, as ye all
are this day" (Acts 22: 3).
EPISTLE.--"When Peter was come to Antioch, I withstood him to the fact, because he
was to be blamed . . . . . and the other Jews dissembled likewise with him;
insomuch that Barnabas also was carried away with their dissimulation"
(Gal. 2: 11, 13).
ACTS.--"Then departed Barnabas to Tarsus, for to seek Saul, and when he had found
him, he brought him unto Antioch. And it came to pass that a whole year they
assembled themselves with the church" (Acts 11: 25, 26).
EPISTLE.--"Then fourteen years after I went up again to Jerusalem with Barnabas, and
took Titus with me also. And I went up by revelation, and communicated unto
them that gospel which I preach among the Gentiles . . . . . but neither Titus,
who was with me, being a Greek, was compelled to be circumcised . . . . . Why
compellest thou the Gentiles to Judaize?" (Gal. 2: 1, 2, 3, 14).